Meals, Rides, and Caregivers


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Meals, Rides, and Caregivers :.


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Meals, Rides, and Caregivers


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Meals, rides, and caregivers : what makes the Older Americans Act so vital to America's seniors : hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, Washington, DC, May 26, 2011.




A Caregiving Cookbook


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Our cookbook features recipes for make-ahead meals, quickly prepared meals, and special dietary needs. You'll also find recipes for guilty pleasures and our favorite comfort foods.We had fun creating this cookbook by giving the members of CareGiving.com some "prompts" to spark their thinking about their talents in the kitchen. Our very first prompt was: "When you are invited to a potluck, what do your friends/family hope you will bring?" We're grateful to all the members of CareGiving.com who contributed recipes to make this wonderful cookbook.When you purchase our cookbook, you also help individuals who care for a family member or friend (family caregivers). Proceeds from the sales of our cookbook will go toward our CareGifters fund, which helps family caregivers in need. As often as we can, we send $500 to a family caregiver to help take care of a pressing need. We've helped family caregivers put food in the fridge, pay for costly medications and supplies, add ramps to their homes, get caught up on bills and take one last trip to see a son's high school graduation before a caree's death.At CareGiving.com, we're a community of supportive individuals caring for a family member or friend. We care for parents, spouses, siblings, grandparents and anyone we consider family. We care for you before, during and after caregiving.Lillie Fuller, who cares for her mom, created our cover art. Her art was also featured in our 2nd Zentalge Art Show in July 2015.




S. Hrg. 112-106


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The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) was created in June 1860, and is an agency of the U.S. federal government based in Washington D.C. The office prints documents produced by and for the federal government, including Congress, the Supreme Court, the Executive Office of the President and other executive departments, and independent agencies. A hearing is a meeting of the Senate, House, joint or certain Government committee that is open to the public so that they can listen in on the opinions of the legislation. Hearings can also be held to explore certain topics or a current issue. It typically takes between two months up to two years to be published. This is one of those hearings.




Already Toast


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The story of one woman’s struggle to care for her seriously ill husband—and a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fails to provide them with structural support. Already Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles. When Kate Washington and her husband, Brad, learned that he had cancer, they were a young couple: professionals with ascending careers, parents to two small children. Brad’s diagnosis stripped those identities away: he became a patient and she his caregiver. Brad’s cancer quickly turned aggressive, necessitating a stem-cell transplant that triggered a massive infection, robbing him of his eyesight and nearly of his life. Kate acted as his full-time aide to keep him alive, coordinating his treatments, making doctors’ appointments, calling insurance companies, filling dozens of prescriptions, cleaning commodes, administering IV drugs. She became so burned out that, when she took an online quiz on caregiver self-care, her result cheerily declared: “You’re already toast!” Through it all, she felt profoundly alone, but, as she later learned, she was in fact one of millions: an invisible army of family caregivers working every day in America, their unpaid labor keeping our troubled healthcare system afloat. Because our culture both romanticizes and erases the realities of care work, few caregivers have shared their stories publicly. As the baby-boom generation ages, the number of family caregivers will continue to grow. Readable, relatable, timely, and often raw, Already Toast—with its clear call for paying and supporting family caregivers—is a crucial intervention in that conversation, bringing together personal experience with deep research to give voice to those tasked with the overlooked, vital work of caring for the seriously ill.




The Ultimate Cooking Companion for At-home Caregivers


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For courses in Homemaker/Home Health Aide certification and Nutrition for at-home caregivers. Written by a multidisciplinary team of practicing home care, nutrition, and education professionals, this reference is designed to assist at-home caregivers as they plan and cook meals, assist with feeding, and model the very best nutritional related practices. Providing both reference material and practical "how to" information in easy-to-read, table-and-chart format, it features a collection of tested recipes geared to simple, basic fare which can be individualized to include ethnic preferences, age-related preferences, and economic circumstances. Both safety and convenience are themes which run throughout the book.




Meals, Rides, and Caregivers


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The Caregiver's Tale


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Ann Burack-Weiss explores a rich variety of published memoirs by authors who cared for ill or disabled family members. Contrary to the common belief that caregiving is nothing more than a stressful situation to be endured, memoirs describe a life transforming experience-self-discovery, a reordering of one's priorities, and a changed view of the world. The Caregiver's Tale offers insight and comfort to individuals caring for a loved one and is a valuable resource for all health care professionals. Identifying common themes, Burack-Weiss describes how the illness career and social meaning of cancer, dementia, HIV/AIDS, mental illness, and chemical dependence affect the caregiving experience. She applies the same method to an examination of family roles: parents caring for ailing children, couples and siblings caring for one another, and adult children caring for aging parents. Jamaica Kincaid, Sue Miller, Paul Monette, Kenzaburo Oë, and Philip Roth are among the many authors who share their caregiving stories. Burack-Weiss provides an annotated bibliography of the more than one hundred memoirs and an accompanying chart to help readers locate those of greatest interest to them.